The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 9, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. VOL. I. No. 20. Subscription Rate; Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year Nas eevee ee Teak a EE nN Rc STRUGGLE TO GET SUPPORT “Gommittes of 15” Plans An- By LAURENCE TODD of crime? (Staff Correspondent of The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, April 8.—Was there any depth to which the Daugherty gang in the Harding-Coolidge administration did not descend, in the cheating of justice and the shielding Senators, congressmen and other listeners wondered, when the story of the blocking by Daugherty and Prison Superinten- dent Votaw of the investigation of dope peddling in Atlanta THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Mlinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1924 gap ™ | MicDONALD 1S' HOLDINGONTO PREMIERSHIP Head of Labor Coernment Re- fuses To lesign | California C. P. P. A. Endorses Brace of Capitalist Knaves (By The Federated Press) SAN FRANCISCO, April 8—The California conference for progress- ive political action has indorsed Hiram Johnson on the republican ticket and McAdoo on the demo- cratic ticket, and will take no part in a third party movement unless “reactionaries” are nominated by the old parties. This action is con- curred in by the railroad brother- other Meeting Today . ie penitentiary was told to the Chicago’s six weeks’ garment’ Brookhart committee by former strike will be thoroly consid- Warden Dyche and Detective ered by the Executive Board of | William J. Burns. the Internationai Ladies’ Gar- Squelching the Dope Probe. ment Workers’ Union, now| ie terror of this, drug trafic meeting in New York City. nationwide activities of the narcotic Every. angle of the long ring, which takes millions in profits x " each year from these human wrecks struggle will be considered and| in the slums of American debe, dev i it|in jails and hospitals—struck home pipe Cee for ‘carrying 'it ‘to “the committee as perhaps no on to victory. other feature of the slimy record of Ferlstein Goes to New York. “normalcy” in government, Meyer | Perlstein, vice-president,| “Dyche found the prisons, when plans leaving immediately for New| cont there by Daugherty as warden, York City, to appear before the ex- to be filled with drug addicts, to ecutive board. ‘ : whom dope was sold by prison Morris Sigman, internatifnal pres- guards. These guards were agents ident who spent considerable time in i ws of druggists, who were in turn the city last week, will also present agents of men higher up in the drug gaatenee first-hand irformation he smuggling ring. He made repeated ag. " ;.|appeals to Votaw, ,who was a bro- sn A uaginl Broeativy Hissar ther-in-law of President Harding, to a the whole union behind the strike atep ine cae DeneEoe- Finally Votaw caused Burns to and accegt the help offered by other start = investigation. When this unions. Keep the Strike Goi investigation was well under way, “We will lay plans to keep the Dyche was summoned by Daugherty strike going as long as is necessary,” to Washington, and there he vent A an hour with Daugherty and Votaw aoe ae sn dis emabwrre iets in aimless diseussion—by Daugherty sist-in their unreasonable and arbi- and ba pd bead aaeeee tlhe Me pro! iy » trary attitude of not dealing with the | @ Publi se re 2 ‘we will Keep ‘the strike go- men in “full. blast.” : Dyche Forced to Resign. it was. announced “at yesterday’s strike meeting that “Bob” Minor | suggestion that the investigatic nm will speak to the strikers today, fol-| pushed and crime stopped within the | mission lowed by Jim Cannon in the near fu-| walls of the federal prison, ture. men were withdrawn. Today the “Committee of 15”]on the stand by Senator Wheeler, | mand. meets with Meyer Perlstein. It is|admitted that his men had begun to WARSAW, April Roumania with Russi: trade relations with it is said that there which the plunged the Poles. garment strikers. have been sixty tried for breaking|had gathered resulted in the indict-|or no suppprt. It fines and sentences. The fines range| resulted in hung juries. from 25 to 200 dollars, the avera; ve being over 100 dollars apiece. Wed- | tigation, would you in all probability livan, and it is expected he will have} covers this little mercy on the strikers: Over | ring?” Wheeler asked. $30,000 has already been put out by the union on injunction cases alone. * NOTE: Additional strike news on | “Votaw stopped it; I did not pro-, i Page 3. test.” a ae Dyche was called to Washington Cloakmakers Win Strike. WATERBURY, Conn., April 8.--|the hint that he should resign, He! tarism. By striking for two weeks against|qid resign, and Daugherty asked seven cloak manufacturers here, | Prohibition Director Haynes to give local 43, International Ladies’ Gar-|him a job, The assistant warden ment Workers, has unionized ter-| remains in the prison, ana Dyche and bury 100% and won a 44-hour week| Burns agree that the drug addicts in the cloak industry. The old/are still buying dope. hours were 50 a week. Intimidation More Crooked Stuff. pecs bit cor boat: gine be hae Much less serious in the scale of nizer ‘ossman, arrested a framoup, has been released by Ci- me ep Ge suaamieed by Dananarty ty Judge Hayes. Local 43 is now | 5 Hh Mo setting out to organize the local) ¢ 4° oe dress and underwear shops. Detroit Working Women Pledge Aid To Garment Strike DETROIT, Mich, Apr, 8." Pledges Sainte’ hai his document, Vincenti f aid and sympathy to the striking|™. ¢! . dressmakers of he, imern om get-the commutation. few tan DAILY. WORKER Find Missing U. S. Paymaster. for ion to the strikers by] SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 8. the Detroit Federation of Working|—Lieutenant Etvine Brown, U. S. Women’s izations, Navy paymaster who disay Mobi, Ala., MOQSCOW, April imer, irector Forbes of gang, to secure a commutation in Atlanta prison, | busine: for $50,000. photostatic copy of | Russia, the offer of Vincenti, and the acceptance of Mortimer, was offered in evidence by Wheeler, Mortimer's former wife identified his si _ direct negotiations Is Parliament LONDON, April ‘Th working women Marah 10, we eee ee Pe cay ee dere un’ won.” tng in adway here late n ter kane Eesti Hoty ins |i erence conn, ne na Zabulak and Anna Need the Money. ANGORA, 8.—' ‘tional central branch. Lauer, ‘Turkish has ae pro- ASHINGTON, April 8—Voting down the omer Nnmudditte action, the Senate the | cided re ol hearings on M to 1 luscle Shoals ENN SERENE ceed. Ford attempted to IMPEACH COOLIDGE! — | Rre?ine“absii' on, but he wan voted POLISH WORKERS hoods and the Farmers’ Education- al and Cooperative league. Meanwhile a third party confer- ence had been called by the Farm- er-Labor party and the Nonpartisan (Special to The Dily Worker) LONDON, Apri 8.—Undis- mayed by last nght’s defeat Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Mlinois, a GHOULS GRAFTED $64 ON EACH Union Heads Take Up Garment Sika. Have Bl G CHICAGO ay De, puted "F rom Grip of National Dope Ring FORCE REVERSAL Premier MacDondd today re- iterated his detemination to carry on until the government is beaten on “a sibstantial is- sue, a matter of pinciple or a league, to make plans for a ticket in this state. The California State Federation of Labor meeting de- nounced this action as premature. Hiram, Johnson ig the senator who urged Daugherty to make Wm. Cen enanae ha tuE nr Hin DY. iawn eheesTL ay Workers! Farmers! Demand: the Labor Party Amalgamation, Organization of Unorganized The Land for the Users The Industries for the Workers Protection of the Foreign-Bora Recornition of Soviet Russia } Price 3 Cents FLU GRAVE DUPONTS GET BIG PROFIT ON OLD HICKORY POWDER PLANT “FLU” VICTIMS DURING WAR (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 8—A_ gruesome charge that undertakers employed by the Old Hickory Powder Company near Nashville, Tenn., contracted to bury its war “flu” vic- tims for $75, actually “farmed out” the burials for $11 and pocketed the $64, difference was made before the Senate Daugherty Investigating Committee today by George W. Storck, a Department of Justice accountant. Storck said the burials were made in Potter’s Field and the government paid the Hickory Company’s charges. Storck made his charge in testimony concerning the De- partment of Justice’s activities in recovering money held to be due the government from the old Hickory company. The committee today spent most of its time examining Brice Armstrong, Chicago dry agent, who continued the story of his alleged difficulties in ob- - taining prosecutions of prohi- OF WAR PACTS Warsaw Regime De- serts Roumania, France (Special to The Daily Worker) government hag won another. diplo- matic victory in getting Poland to agree to withdraw support from in the event of hostilities The Polish government is reso- itely opposed to any further as- sistance to Roumania despite French | pressure; it is desirous of resuming | earliest possible moment and formed political circles much distrust of France growing out of the bad cconomic situation into | 1 military expenditures government and som made under: French -have a class parties are urging the govern- Daugherty was cold toward the|ment to accede to the Soviet gov- igation be |ernment’s request for a joint com- to re-draw the . Galician Burns’ | frontier and it is believed that the Burns, placed | government will yield to this de- Recent developments here understood that they will extend the| run down the connection between the |cate that Roumania has been isolated | offer of financial assistance to the| prison guards and the wealthy heads | except for French support and oe of the dope ring, when they were | her controversy with Soviet Russia On the injunction cases alone there | called off. He said the evidence they | over Bessarabia she will get little i sh i ‘ds, but the trial| that even France will aid Roumania the injunction, fifty-nine receiving| ment of several guards, bu' ay ee ae m tinued that inves-| extent of waging war. Side wai on i The breakdown in Germany has nesday between forty and fifty more|have traced the dope traffic to the|forced Poland to look towards Rus- cases are coming before Judge Sul-| very heads of the conspiracy that|sia for economic relief but it is the country, the narcotic | pressure of the Polish working-class Y whose discontent was expressed in “IT am sure we would have run/mass strikes a few months ago that it down to that source and located | is ee id for the al eres he top,” lied Burns.|of the Polish government Polis! as plans ig imperialism under French guidance has proved a failure and the dis- ‘trust of Soviet Russia is being re- a month later. Finally he was given| placed by distrust of French mili- Hunger for Trade , Puts French Plutes On Recognition Side (Rosta News Agency.) was the agreement of|conference of French commercial intimate associate |and industrial enterprises, whose ag- the | gregata capital amounts to over 500 veterans’ byreau and member of the | million francs, organited by a repre- sentative of the Caucasion consor- sentence for Charles Vincenti of |tium, has decided to form a union of enterprises for trade with The meeting further unani- mously decided that an official dele- gation, with a view to entering upon ture | Government the resumption of nor- not|/mal relations between France and ies Union of Soviet Socialist Repub- red at|the British parliament will be debated $120,000 | by yee Hrsg mere a, ne govern: it funds found ly-jnual conference at York, jan 4 eens Yate last nigh VApril 20, on motion of the London Attempt To Push Muscle Shoals For Ford Gets Little Set Back ipporters of keller commi rings % devia eee. 8 April 16. mocrat, Mississi in an Me " ze the committee Another Article by J. T. Murphy on “What’sDoing in J. Burns chief of the federal secret service. SAID TO KNOW OF MER ROUGE KILLING; GONE Buzy Disappears From Prison Farm direct vote of cofidence.” The labor cabint met to at- tempt to devise « method to handle the evictia bill in an- other form. It ‘as on this measure that the government met defeat by ninevotes. Par- liamentary order rohibits re- introduction of a efeated bill in the same sessior . The British press getrally upholds MacDonald in not riigning. The premier spent the moring about his foreign office duties, & showed: the strain of last night’s arrowing ex- perience when he sa with folded arms, and deathly whe face, in a maelstrom of jibes fro: the tory op- position, refusing to rdgn. Some Liberals In 6.—The Soviet Russia at the, in} here is visible lately (Special to The Daily Worker) ATLANTA, Ga. April 8—Lead- ers of one faction in the recent Ku ‘i Klux Klan warfare today began A few Liberals vote wtp private investigations of the escape : the federal prison honor farm “moré than’ forty ab ‘from "vote eof ‘Dr. E. C. Buzy, who claimed ling. Among the latter fere all the!to know “the true story of the Mer \leaders including David hyd George|Rouge mob murders.” jand Herbert H. Asquith - Dr. Buzy, serving a sentence for | Mr. MacDonald and jis cabinet/using the mails to defraud escaped jmaintain that the houseleliberately | from the honor farm two weeks ago. \Sabotaged the bill, which ts designed} Federal officials said he hed been \to safeguard poor tenantkgainst the/a trusty at the Atlanta prison be- oppression of grasping l¢llords and|fore being put on the farm and had they will probably try | draft the| been regarded by guards and con- measure in a new fornfvhich will|victs as “peculiar.” meet the approval of bh sides of], Henry J. Norton, leader sof one the house. klan faction who investigated Buzy’s The original bi conflicting accounts of the Mer by John Wheatley, m of health,| Rouge horror said the escape might |who is the sole representive of the|have some connection with klan af- extremist socialist “blaggang from|fairs and he would probe reports the Clyde” in the cabingand it was }that Buzy had been “spirited away” backed solidly by the rgeals in the|for “ulterior purposes.’ Labor party. Buzy in his several “confessions” to Norton and others insisted that Greece Recogn eS Watt Daniel had been killed by mask- Russia, AskinFull ed men at Mer Rouge but that he was the leader of one of the two Diplomatic Rations (Rosta News Agty.) “whipping parties” which waylaid MOSCOW, April 8.4 The working- indi- introduced is not believed introduce the two men, Watt Daniel and Thomas Richards. 158 American Miners is offi- all; rted that the jeek Minis- * er to Berlin has offi Rafermed Slaughtered m Coal the Russian ambassado} that ; hoses: has (eadied “deh neta Pits Last Februar yy N.Y. LABOR WARS ON JOHNSON BILL DESPITE GOMPERS Workers Party Active For Foreign-Born bition law violators in Chicago, and alleged interference with prosecutions by Department of Justice officials. After Armstrong was excused, George W. Storck, a certified ac- countant in the department of jus- tice, was called to the stand. Storck told of his investigation of the Old Hickory Powder Company, near Nashville, Tenn. He was assigned to the case in August, 1923, by John W. H. Crim, assistant attorney gen- eral, who wrote him, saying that from the data he had “the govern- ment can recover millions,” he said. “Did the DuPonts know your leads so they could block your every (By ‘The Federated Press) _ NEW YORK, April 8.—Labor here is sharply divided on the immigration issue and feeling is running high. move?” | Following the joint campaign of ‘Yes. 5 President Samuel Gompers, American At a conference in the office of | Federation of Labor, and Commander the Assistant Attorney General Hol-|John R. Quinn, Amencan Legion, in land, Storck said he estimated the|favor of the Johnson bill restricting amount that could be recovered from immigration and discriminating the Old. Hickory Company. at ~$5,-] against southern and eastern Europe- 000,000 and others present at from | ans, Hugh Frayne, local A. F. of L. $15,000,000 to $20,000,000. He said representative, is speaking here for the DuPonts admitted Ylding $1,- | the Johnson bill, 500,000 of the government’s money| Secretary Baroff, International but. refused to turn it over until they | Ladies’ Garment Workers, has replied were given “a clean bill of health.” | to Gompers’ written appeal to all A. “Has suit ever been brought?” F. of L. affiliated unions, challenging “No” Gompers” stand. After listing the Took DuPont's Word. defects of the bill , Baroff’s letter tates, “ i i i * At a conference of department of- states, “Our international union can é a 7, | not accept the penalizing of any race ficials in January, 1924, Storck said,| or nation as the principle for oithar the estimates of the recoverable i ve | regulation or restriction of immigra- money in the case were from $5,- | 4; z tion.” 000,000 to $20,000,000. Assistant} "The Italian branches of New York, Attorney General Holland was pres- m ee ae ee a fe bees Party, and most of the for- mn ‘is erence, and it was/eign-born organizations are holdi said there that the ‘DuPonts had eae Sie Joie t | protest meetings against the Johnson $1,500,000 of admitted government | bill. The bill is ainied especially at money on deposit which they refused | radicals. A recent meeting of 160 to pay back unless they obtained “a representatives of labor groups of clean bill of health.” nine nationalities went on “record Storck read from his notes that| against the proposed legislation which the “son-in-law of the DuPonts” had provides for police supervision and been named “contracting officer” at d fingerprinting of immigrants and de- the Old Hickory plant, and that by | portation of persane whose views do his direction only “ten out of each not suit the Gary and Burns rulers. 100” cites, J were checked, If there Seren was any difference between the gov- ; ernmert; check and the company fig- Railmen Get Pay 7" Increase Preserving ures, he said, “the DuPont check Present Union Rules nition to the Union of §iet Social- ist Republics, at’ the sal time ex- pressing the wish of th¢reek gov- ernment to resume full tmal diplo- matic and consular mutj relations | with the Soviet. / Prices Fall in Assia While They ke in Capitalist {tions (By Rosta News Agy.) MOSCOW, April 8. taken to lower the level commoditi of gener: (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, April 8.—The United States bureau of mines re- ports 158 deaths from mine acci- dents in February, 1924. Anthracite mines contributed 40 deaths and bi- tuminous mines 118, Teachers Go On Strike. MEXICO CITY, Apri. 8.—All the teachers and all the other govern- ment employes of the state of Puebla are going on strike. They say that they ean no longer go on living in e steps|this way. The government owes for|them over sixty days’ wages, and @ have|many of them are starving. Their been instrumental in ing the|conditions seem to be even worse cost of a great many n§factured|than the conditions of the govern- articl thus, prices offtile and|ment employes in the City of Mexico. leather goods have latelyme down One eat eee from 15 to 30 per cenblectrical lamps are 20 per cent dper, etc, News of a ‘similar chhter are reaching from Leningrad Membership Meing . For C. E. Ruthberg \ To Be Held Ail 22 All members of th@yorkers Pi mark down, che April 22 as “en, " tde C. E. Ruthenberg _ membershipheeting, which will be held in Imgal Hall at 2409 N. Halsted street.) is im- portant that all memberstend BURNS MUST 8.—A delegate with the Soviet France Insulted Again. BERLIN, April 8.—France has de- manded Germany In Danger. 8.—Abolition of including 80) reichswehr, slashed the French tricolor to ribbons, IMPEACH COOLIDGE! WASHINGTON, thru the ia 4 was favorably The Martone wants be cond gressmen and senators, Favorable Action Is Taken On U.S. Public Land Grant Probe gressional investigation of public land grants to the Northern Pacific railroad the House public lands committee today. lucted by a joint committee of ten con- was always taken.” Daugherty In This, Too. _ Storck identified the DuPont son- in-law as “Capt. Foulke.” He! An agreement has been reached charged i there had been “account |between representatives of over 100,- padding” in cotton purchase and cot- 000 railroad trainmen and railroad officials, whereby the trainmen, em- Ployed on 74 different railroads re- ceive wage increases averaging six ton freight rates, “The Louisville & Nashville ad- per cent. It was announced by As- sistant Vice-President M. 0. Calla- mitted an overcharge of $29,000,” Storck said. “They charged it to profit and loss and wrote an employe it could be adjusted.” f han at the Transportation Building “Influenza cases” at the Old Hick-|that the union relinquished none of ory plant were particularly bad, the |its basic rules, the men to receive witness said, and he charged that | overtime Pay as usual after eight the DuPont company contracted with hours work. a Nashville undertaking firm to dis- The wage settlement was based Pose of bodies at $75 each, many of |on the increase ranted by the New which were buried in a potter's field | York Central railroad lines last Jan- at a cost of $11. uary. Negotiations had been go- Storck was questioned about “the|ing on for two weeks, L. E. Shep- Green case,” a $30,000,000 mail ard, president of the Order of Rail- way Conductors, leading the union negotiators. If the agreement had not been reached the matter was fraud case in Bost It was a “stock selling: syetem,” Storck said, slated to come before the railroad labor board at Washington. —_—_—__. and in his investigation “Mr. Green” told him that he could not proceed, as “Harry M, Daugherty was his at- Busy Planning to Send Delegates to St. Paul, June 17th torney.” “And there never has been a prosecution?” asked Senator heeler. “Not by the federal government,” said Storck, adding that, there had been a state prosecutio: (By The Federated Press) x , NEW YORK, April 8.—The east is joining with the west in the na- tional Farmer Labor convention to be held in the Twin Cities, June 17. State conventions to select delegates for the national meeting will be held in New York and Ohio in May, and probably in Pennsylvania and New Jersey at the same time. The Ohio meeting has been set for Columbus, May 18, ; i